- Phillip Varady, Sr.
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About the Author
The author is a native New Yorker who would have done better in school if he had not changed majors twice in three semesters. Leaving college he worked as a lab assistant doing enjoyable but low paying work. An enlistment in the Army and two years in France was life changing. Married in 1959 he and his wife have five children and thirteen grandchildren. Never content for too long with anything he was successively a truck driver, salesman, NYC taxi driver, carpenter, Sunday School teacher and subcontractor. Then the whole family moved to the quiet and rural Eastern Shore of Maryland where he found work as an ironworker, timber cruiser and nuclear reactor maintenance worker. It was during this last occupation that he began to write, being out of town so often. He and his wife retired in 2006 and are enjoying life building furniture and experimenting with new recipes, respectively. His lifelong interest in religion, history, science and anthropology are reflected in his novels. - Books
- Sepik
FICTION | HISTORICAL/INSPIRATIONAL
This novel takes place in an historical setting amidst real events among real people. It is the story of a young German girl and her best friend who decide to become missionary nuns. They are sent to German New Guinea in 1913, to participate in the opening of a new mission in a remote jungle clearing on the Sepik River. She is besieged by jealousy, rivalry, prejudice and sexuality; her own and that of others. She is determined to resist and to be an asset to the mission but is drawn into a whirlpool of emotions by a young German Lieutenant and his mixed-race wife. Her whole life comes to a point of no return just as the Great War begins.- $24.26 | ISBN: 978-1-4116-8720-2
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- $24.26 | ISBN: 978-1-4116-8720-2
- The Swans of Lorraine
FICTION | HISTORICAL ROMANCE
When he was four, Edouard witnessed his father’s suicide and withdrew into himself for a time until he could again feel affection for another person, and then it was only for his younger sister Eliane. He had no plan to ever fall in love. Not what one would expect from a typical Frenchman but then Edouard was not typical. At the age of fourteen his mother revealed that his real father was a German soldier who served in occupied France during the Great War. It was a secret that he and his mother would keep from his sister, now half-sister.
- Five years later a young lady falls in love with him and ignites a fire that will burn with such intensity that without her, life would seem cold and dark. Laure-Anne was his life. He could not imagine living without her; withdrawal would not be an option. They must just go through life together, forever.
- That was the plan . . .